Prime Minister gets Bhojpuri welcome in Trinidad | The Indo-Caribbean story - video Dailymotion

Trinidad and Tobago welcomed PM Modi with a traditional Bhojpuri Chautaal a tribute to its rich Indian roots.

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00:00That's an Indian Prime Minister being welcomed in a Caribbean nation with an Indian folk

00:14performance known as the Bhojpuri Chotal. Indians started to arrive at the shores of Trinidad and

00:18Tobago 1845 onwards as slaves and indentured labourers. They now account for 42% of the

00:23population of Trinidad and Tobago with 1.4 million people. The British ended slavery in 1833

00:28and brought over 1.5 lakh indentured Hindu and Muslim labourers to Trinidad between 1845 and 1970.

00:35They worked five years as paid apprentices, saved money and often bought abandoned estates to build

00:40free villages. By Trinidad's independence in 1962, Indo-Trinidadians had begun owning land and

00:45running farms. Today, they are deeply woven into Trinidad's culture and politics. Intermarriage

00:50is common and many still proudly name their ancestral Indian zilla or districts.